I “laid an egg” (intentionally) by stating that 40% of the ships at sea are transporting fossil fuel, so the most direct way of accomplishing the stated goal would be to use less fossil fuel.
OCEANOISE 2026 – an odd side-meeting
Category: Energy conservation
Field report from OCEANOISE 2026 – Day 1
One of the virtues of OCEANOISE is that while it includes many academics, it also includes people in ocean policy, marine conservation, and ocean industries. So a lot of work gets done – not just through the presentations, key notes, and poster sessions, but also through the long lunches and social events that orbit around the many discussions stimulated by the programming.
Melding BOEM and BSEE together again…
When Barrack Obama was elected in 2008, and seated in 2009, he appointed Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Department of Interior (DOI). This brought an end to eight years of the DOI being run at the convenience of the extraction industries.
Earth Day 2026 Part 2
While taking this Earth Day to punctuate our appreciation for the our entire planet may seem a stingy expression of gratitude for Mother Earth that sustains all life, it is a great day to take a pause and honor those people who have dedicated their lives to honor Her – every day.
Earth Day 2026 Part 1
For most of modern economic history, the ocean has been valued by what can be taken from it: fish landed, oil extracted, minerals surveyed. The living systems that produce those things, and the much larger web of processes that sustain the planet, have been treated as background. Free. Assumed.
Aside from the continuation of our dependence on fossil fuel, the “Macondo Deepwater Horizon” blowout was probably the worst fossil-fueled environmental disaster ever.
Earth Day 2026
Taking a day to celebrate those who have dedicated their lives to supporting our blue planet.
This is really not the best time to pull long-planned power generation projects offline. It is bound to kick the US back into the “Dark Ages.
Individual “Freedom,” energy use, and the common good.
One of the dominant American arguments against public transportation hinges on this idea of “Individual Freedom” – freedom to choose how we get around…
Adaptive Management during the hottest week on record.
The expansion of a fossil-fueled global economy over the last century has driven an historically unprecedented growth in global prosperity, technological advancement, and improvement in life-quality for a plurality of our planet’s human inhabitants. Unfortunately this phenomenon has falsely correlated…